Looser digital rules could damage, not help, Britain’s tech sector
Attempts to do better than the European Union are probably not worthwhile
BRITISH BANKS, manufacturers and telecoms firms must all process information about European customers and suppliers. Ensuring that they could keep doing so was one of the government’s main considerations when negotiating withdrawal from the EU. In June, six months after its final departure, Britain received word that its data-processing rules had been judged “adequate”—that is, similar enough to the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that data could keep flowing freely.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Is “adequate” good enough?”
Britain November 27th 2021
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